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Tournament: The Prestigious World Schools Debate Invitational | Round: Finals | Opponent: Georgia Southern Peach Red | Judge: Mario HerreraMy email is arg5180@gmail.com and my phone number is 678-276-6628. I don't wanna debate about theory or disclosure, so contact me before the round if you want me to meet any interps. Likewise, if you've got any issues with like my ethics or behavior or something, contact me before the round so we can work it out then.Please don't ask me about my pronouns, thanks!

JanFeb - Antiqueerness K

The aff's engagement with the state is an active step towards queer destruction

The Mary Nardini Gang, 2009. "Towards the Queerest Insurrection." https://itsgoingdown.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/toward_the_queerest_insurrection_read.pdfII As queers we understand Normalcy. Normal, is the tyranny of our condition; reproduced in all of our relationships. Normalcy is violently reiterated in every minute of every day. We understand this Normalcy as the Totality. The Totality being the interconnection and overlapping ANDwe see only one solution: every nation and border reduced to rubble.

Politics is motivated by reproductive futurism which is antagonistic to queerness – that necessitates a rejection of politics. Their reading of the 1AC is a futile desire to find meaning or purpose within a social life that offers them none – we impact turn your "heuristic" claims

baedan, summer 2012. "Not for the Children." Journal of Queer Nihilism. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/baedan-baedan.pdfIf the varying discourses of politics are only ever about the Child (as society's AND"politics" the means of its promulgation as the order of social reality… Political self-destruction inheres in the only act that counts as one; the act of resisting enslavement to the future in the name of having a life. 15

The queer is intrinsically tied to the terrorist – their plight to eliminate the terrorist is a plot to eliminate the perverse other in the form of queerness. This creates a form of homonationalism wherein U.S. queers have no choice but to be complicit in the state

Jasbir Puar, 2007. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. There has been a curious and persistent absence of dialogue regarding sexuality in public debates about counterterrorism, despite its crucial presence in American patriotism, warmongering, and empire building. Without these discourses of sexuality (and their attendant anxieties)—heterosexuality, homosexuality, queerness, metrosexuality, alternative and insurgent sexuality—the twin mechanisms of normalization and banishment that distinguish the terrorist from the patriot would cease to properly behave. At this historical juncture, the invocation of the terrorist as a queer, nonnational, perversely racialized other has become part of the normative script of the U.S. war on terror. One need only reflect upon the eager proliferation of homophobic-racist images (reactivated from the 1991 Gulf War, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Orientalist histories) of terrorists since September 11, 2001. Take the case of Osama bin Laden, who was portrayed as monstrous by ANDdeployment of nationalism, insofar as these perverse bodies reiterate heterosexuality as the norm but also because certain domesticated homosexual bodies provide ammunition to reinforce nationalist projects.

Liberal institutionalism sustained by reproductive futurism ensures queer overkill – this turns their framework, Overkill is a violence that surpasses all utility

Stanley 11 Eric Stanley, "Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture" Social Text, 107, 2011, KBKilling Time “He was my son—my daughter. It didn’t matter which. He was a sweet kid,” Lauryn Paige’s mother, trying to reconcile at once her child’s murder and her child’s gender, stated outside an Austin, Texas, courthouse. 24 Lauryn was an eighteen-year-old transwoman who was brutally stabbed to death. According to Dixie, Lauryn’s best friend, it was a “regular night.” The two women had spent the beginning of the evening “working it” as sex workers. After Dixie and Lauryn had made about $200 each they decided to call it quits and return to Dixie’s house, where both lived. On the walk home, Gamaliel Mireles Coria and Frank Santos picked them up in their white conversion van. “Before we got into the van the very first thing I told them was that we were transsexuals,” said Dixie in an interview. 25 After a night of driving around, partying in the van, Dixie got dropped off at her house. She pleaded for Lauryn to come in with her, but Lauryn said, “Girl, let me finish him,” so the van took off with Lauryn still inside. 26 Santos was then dropped off, leaving Lauryn and Coria alone in the van. According to the autopsy report, Travis County medical examiner Dr. Roberto Bayardo cataloged at least fourteen blows to Lauryn’s head and more than sixty knife wounds to her body. The knife wounds were so deep that they almost decapitated her—a clear sign of overkill. Overkill is a term used to indicate such excessive violence that it pushes a body ANDsocial worlds of which they are ambassadors. Overkill is what it means, what it must mean, to do violence to what is nothing.

Forget the 1ac—forgetfulness refuses the temporal logics of straight time and reproductive futurism in favor of new modes of relationality and transformation in the here and now.

Halberstam 11. ~J. Jack Halberstam, professor of English at the University of Southern California, The Queer Art of Failure. Duke UPress. pg. 69-71. SH.~Jesse and Chester forgot where they parked their car, did not remember saving the world from mass destruction, and found themselves alone again with a fridge full of chocolate pudding. Forgetting apparently has its benefits. It also has world- saving potential, or maybe the point of Dude is more that forgetfulness stalls the enactment of a heroic aftermath to salvation because the heroes have forgotten their own messianic mission and have returned to life in Dudesville. But if we learned anything from Jesse and Chester, and I sincerely hope we did not, we learned not to look for grand gestures, we learned that ignorance is bliss, and we learned that resistance lurks in the performance of forgetfulness itself, hiding out in oblivion and waiting for a new erasure to inspire ANDsexuality, community, and politics and adopt forgetting as a strategy for the disruption of the regularity of Oedipal transmission.

The Role of the Judge is to embrace queerness – that's key to speaking out against and destroying harmful power relations which are left unquestioned by status quo discourse

JanFeb - Authoritarianism K

Their attempts at distinguishing between authoritarian and non-authoritarian are based on Eurocentric definitions of democracy that deny the realities of colonialism

Thomas A. Koelble (Professor of Business Administration @ University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Edward LiPuma (Professor of Anthropology @ University of Miami, U.S.), 2008. "Democratizing Democracy: A Postcolonial Critique of Conventional Approaches to the 'Measurement of Democracy.'" Democratization. http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510340701768075This difference calls, in turn, for a more nuanced understanding and use of AND, other than placing the onus on 'domestic leaders' to produce better democracy

Former colonies can't meet these definitions because of the ways they were forced to develop – means they demonize countries for not fitting "proper" definitions of democracy and reproduce neocolonialist logic

Thomas A. Koelble (Professor of Business Administration @ University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Edward LiPuma ~1~ (Professor of Anthropology @ University of Miami, U.S.), 2008. "Democratizing Democracy: A Postcolonial Critique of Conventional Approaches to the 'Measurement of Democracy.'" Democratization. http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510340701768075The habitus of the colonial state thus developed as the inverted image of the EuroAmerican ANDaltered the conceptual fabrication of democracy for these states and for their citizenry.

Neocolonialism prevents postcolonial self-determination, leads to large-scale exploitation, is the direct cause of ongoing war and conflict in postcolonies, and will be the cause of great power wars and eventually nuclear war in the future – these impacts outweigh under any impact calculus which makes the evaluation of the kritik a prior question

The alternative is to democratize democracy – this places the power of determining what constitutes the postcolony's democracy in the hands of its citizens which checks back against the aff's neocolonialist logic

Thomas A. Koelble (Professor of Business Administration @ University of Cape Town, South Africa) and Edward LiPuma ~2~ (Professor of Anthropology @ University of Miami, U.S.), 2008. "Democratizing Democracy: A Postcolonial Critique of Conventional Approaches to the 'Measurement of Democracy.'" Democratization. http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13510340701768075Democracy across the postcolony must, of necessity, take a different course from the ANDthe process of re-territorializing and thus redefining in its own image.

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JanFeb - China Fill-in DA

China is currently looking to expand its influence in Africa, but U.S. military presence keeps them in check

Jason Lee, 10 December. "Trump Admin Looks to Counter China, Russia's Growing Power in Africa with New Strategy." NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-looks-counter-china-russia-s-growing-power-africa-n945171WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to unveil a new strategy for Africa this week focusing on countering ANDunder loan terms that have left some impoverished governments saddled with large-scale debt, giving Beijing decisive leverage in coming years. "The Chinese government or its state-owned companies have extraordinary power to dictate to these African countries," said Joshua Meservey, a senior policy analyst at the right-leaning Heritage Foundation, adding that China is "the most consequential foreign actor in Africa."

Plan destroys U.S. relationships in Africa – that's key for China to take hold

Reuban Brigety (American diplomat, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University), 28 August 2018. "A Post-America Africa." Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/africa/2018-08-28/post-american-africaAfrica is transforming rapidly, and the United States’ approach to Africa is not keeping pace. While other countries are jumping at opportunities to invest in growing African economies, the United States is struggling to keep up. China's commitments to the ANDinterests, combined with African leaders’ increasing assertion of their own needs in partnerships, is shifting the landscape of engagement with non-African countries and organizations. Specifically, it is giving Africans options for partnership that they did not previously have. Accordingly, the government of the United States should consider taking the following steps to reposition its official engagement in Africa. First, the State Department should hold a structured dialogue with the AU on Agenda 2063. Next, Trump should send Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Tibor Nagy to the continent before the end of 2018 to strengthen regional and bilateral relationships. The National Intelligence Council should conduct a formal USG assessment of foreign bilateral and multilateral partnerships in Africa to understand their impact on U.S. interests. And Trump should fully embrace the April 2018 recommendations of the Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa to develop a comprehensive economic strategy for private sector engagement in Africa. The United States is rapidly losing political influence in Africa, both bilaterally and multilaterally. Africa is not standing still while the United States government contemplates how it should engage and recovers from its blunders. The gains that other partners, such as China and the EU, are making will eventually constrain the options available to the United States for shaping developments on the continent in a way that support its own interests as well as the priorities of African countries. The United States must act swiftly and strategically to adjust its approach to a changing continent, or else it will get left behind.

Empirics prove – China and fills-in for aid when U.S. pulls out

Michael Peel and Kiran Stacey (Financial Times Reporters), 2018. "Pakistan Turns to Russia and China After US Military Aid Freeze." Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/81aea830-0238-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5The US said this month that it would suspend security assistance to Pakistan worth $ANDrelationship with China, is a response to what the Americans have been doing. And they have their own reasons. They want to use India, in our view, to contain China.”

Chinese aid is uniquely bad – it's no strings attached, so countries get away with even more egregious national violence

Roudabeh Kishi (postdoctoral research fellow at University of Sussex) and Clionadh Raleigh (professor of political geography at the University of Sussex), 2 December 2015. "When China Gives Aid to African Governments, They Become More Violent." The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/12/02/when-china-gives-aid-to-african-governments-they-become-more-violent/?noredirect=onandutm_term=.b176de24c2f1Chinese aid is different from Western aid: It is unconditional, meaning it comes with no strings attached. Western aid typically requires progress on the donor’s agenda, such as support for democracy, good governance, respect for human rights, and poverty reduction. President Xi’s visit to Zimbabwe is particularly striking as a counterpoint to Western countries’ relations with the country as the EU’s sanctions against Zimbabwe began in 2002 over electoral fraud and human rights abuses. China doesn’t impose its political views, ideals, or principles onto countries to which it gives aid. In what’s known as its “non-interference policy,” the Chinese government pointedly says that it is not trying to influence the politics decisions of African regimes. As evidence, China often gives aid directly to state leaders and ANDnot received a fair share, they can riot or attack their rivals for those funds. But while greedy opposition forces may be a problem, the most critical issue is, how a government and its security forces respond to aid. Consider Ethiopia, which has been criticized for human rights abuses and for forcing the migration of people living in the Eastern area. The government is insisting on that exodus so it can develop large infrastructure for solar, wind, and water energy projects, with the goal of positioning itself as a major power producer. Aid from the West comes with specific conditions on not moving communities and on continually assessing the environment and social well-being. But Chinese aid requires no such thing — and so when the Chinese send money to Ethiopia more civilians are harmed. Or consider the country President Xi is visiting: Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe has long upset traditional donors; he has been accused of human rights abuses against opposition supporters and oversaw a controversial land transfer program. In response to international uproar over his national economic and political mismanagement, Mugabe has been courting aid from China. Mugabe has reportedly used Chinese aid to build Zimbabwe’s surveillance capacity, so that he can watch and repress other political parties, journalists, civil society, and opposition supporters. Finally, consider Uganda. When its traditional donors revolted because of the country’s draconian laws on homosexuality, including Scandinavian states as well as the United States, Uganda began to focus more on encouraging Chinese aid. That’s why some African leaders (such as Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya or Mugabe of Zimbabwe) have been turning to China for aid. First, they want to acknowledge China’s growing influence in the region. And second, some African leaders will go to tremendous lengths to remain in power, especially through repressing competition.

Michael T. Klare (defense correspondent, professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College), 19 June 2018. "The United States is Pushing Toward War with China." The Nation. https://www.thenation.com/article/united-states-pushing-towards-war-china/Of course, the Chinese are hardly blameless in the escalating tensions in the region. They have continued to militarize South China Sea islands whose ownership is in dispute, despite a promise that Chinese President Xi Jinping made to President Obama in 2015 not to do so. Some of those islands in the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos are also claimed by Vietnam, the Philippines, and other countries in the area and have been the subject of intensifying, often bitter disagreements among them about where rightful ownership really lies. Beijing has simply claimed sovereignty over all of them and refuses to compromise on the issue. By fortifying them—which American military commanders see as a latent military threat to US forces in the region—Beijing has provoked framework.

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